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Not involving J-Lo in any way, unless she's playing the person doing it, a '''Mage In Manhattan''' situation where an evil character from a fantasy dimension enters our own with the intent of causing destruction. Hilarity ensues. [[Villains Blend in Better]], but they ''do'' still want to [[Take Over the World]], so such an appearance has a tendency to [[The Unmasqued World|blast any masquerade to pieces]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Digimon]]''. Happened at least once a season, and once in reverse with [[Digimon Savers|Kurata]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Inverted in Bill Willingham's ''[[
* [[The DCU]] villainess the Queen of Fables is the [[Wicked Stepmother]] from "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (
** There is also Brother Grimm, King of Eastwind, who antagonizes [[Flash]] and lusts after Flash's wife, Linda Park West. He has similar powers to the Queen of Fables, and can somehow detect and attack someone who is using [[Super Speed]], making him a tough foe for Flash to face.
* {{spoiler|The squid}} in ''[[Watchmen]]'', or that's what {{spoiler|Ozymandias}}would have you believe.
* [[Red Sonja]]'s enemy, the evil wizard Kulan Gath, attempted to conquer [[Marvel Comics]] version of New York City in an issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' in the 1970s. Spider-Man and Red Sonja (in Mary Jane Watson's body) managed to drive him back. He tried again in 2007, brainwashing the population and remaking the city as a bronze-age nightmare.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* Queen Narissa from ''[[Enchanted]]''.
* Borderline example in ''[[Mirror Mask]]'': {{spoiler|The Princess does escape to the real world for a while, but the destruction she causes is limited to "eating chips and snogging boys and smoking and everything." Her own world, however, faces [[The End of the World
* In the [[So Bad It's Good]] ''Beastmaster II: Through the Portal of Time,'' [[Evil Overlord]] Arklon finds his way into 1980s Los Angeles and proceeds to live it up.
* In the ''[[Super Mario Brothers]]'' movie, Koopa zips over to our universe with an army of Goombas armed with [[Evolutionary Levels|Devo guns]] to chimpify some locals and take back "their" world.
* General Zod and his minions Ursa and Non in Superman II.
* Shiwan Khan in ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]''.
* Gargamel in ''[[The Smurfs (
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* The climactic, gives-you-chills-every-time end battle from ''[[Young Wizards|So You Want to Be a Wizard]]''.
** To elaborate and oversimplify, the [[Satan|Lone Power]] comes to New York and tries to turn it evil. When they try to stop It, It {{spoiler|puts out the Sun.}}
*** It helps that they have the canonical copy of reality in book form as their weapon.
* [[Older Than Radio]] in that it occurs in Chapter 8 of the early [[Time Travel]] children's novel ''[[
* A lift of this occurs in the [[Narnia]] prequel
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s modern fantasies usually involve some version of this, with the monster usually being one of the [[The Fair Folk|Unseleighe Sidhe]] (Dark Court Elves). Most representative of this trope is ''Mad Maudlin'', in which Aerune, self-styled Lord of Death and Pain, tries to open a Nexus to [[Magical Land|Underhill]] in Central Park and a Sidhe driven mad by the presence of cold iron turns into a literal [[wikipedia:Bloody Mary (folklore)|Bloody Mary]], murdering people left and right.
* The climax of ''Blood & Iron'' by Elizabeth Bear.
* [[The Fair Folk]] in ''[[
* A large part of the series ''[[Everworld]]'': Loki's dream is to use Senna's powers to transport himself and the other gods back to this world to escape from Ka Anor. Given gods like Huitzilopoctli, who eats ''thousands of human hearts in a sitting,'' [[Nightmare Fuel]] may ensue.
** Of course, this is {{spoiler|inverted with Senna's ''own'' plan---to conquer Everworld by bringing modern humans there with guns and other weapons}}.
* Bluebeard (Caster) form ''[[
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]],'' Jadis comes to England around 1900 and wreaks havoc trying to [[Take Over the World]]. This is one of the few examples where the Narnia books have any adventurous incidents of any kind taking place in the world of Earth. Once she discovers Narnia, her attention mostly remains there.
* Queen Redd arrives on Earth in ''[[Seeing Redd]]'', the sequel to ''[[The Looking Glass Wars]]''.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'': The first nine kingdoms are all typical fairy tale places, while the legendary "Tenth Kingdom" is New York.
* In the famous Czech fairy tale TV series ''[[Arabela]]'' (
* ''[[Ace Lightning]]'', although the villains in question come from a video game rather than a fantasy dimension.
* ''[[Charmed]]'' has an example in the [[Evil Counterpart|"Evil Enchantress" clone of Paige]] from the S4 episode, appropriately titled "Paige from the Past."
* Subverted on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].'' One would ''assume'' this is why [[Physical God|Glory]] came to this world from her original Hell dimension, but actually she's been exiled and just wants to return home. Though, this ''would'' probably [[
* In the last two seasons of [[Stargate SG
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* At the climax of ''[[Viewtiful Joe]] 2'', the villain {{spoiler|Jet Black}} escapes from Movie Land with the power of the Rainbow Oscars, resulting in a final showdown at an awards ceremony.
** Subverted in that {{spoiler|Jet Black was from the real world in the first place}}.
* Inverted and played literally in [[Dungeon Fighter Online]]. The Mage class's backstory starts her off being chased down by evil acolytes in Brooklyn, leading to Central Park, where the Mage eventually finds her way into the world that the game takes place in.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Extremely commonplace in the first book of ''[[Dimension Heroes]]'', with evil Dark Overlord Clonar and his various brainwashed minions crossing over from Creturia to Earth in order to conquer it.▼
* The base premise of [http://sooniwillrule.blogspot.com/ this blog]{{context}}▼
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▲* Extremely commonplace in the first book of [[Dimension Heroes]], with evil Dark Overlord Clonar and his various brainwashed minions crossing over from Creturia to Earth in order to conquer it.
▲* The base premise of [http://sooniwillrule.blogspot.com/ this blog]
* Debatably, King Koopa from ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]''. His intent wasn't to destroy Brooklyn, though. Just simply conquer it.
** And arguably the same deal in [[The Movie]].
* Semi interestingly done in ''[[Scooby
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